Almost halfway there already. This will scream well past $2M. Veronica Mars is one of those shows I shouldn't like given my taste in TV but I really enjoyed it. I do wish there was a tier lower than $35 to get the movie on release. It will likely be way cheaper than that on Blu-ray. Very cool that they got the whole band back together though, my girlfriend and I will definitely watch it.

As for the Kickstarter, I'm not going to give Warner Brothers money to make a movie no matter how much I would like to see this. That's bullsh*t.

As I understand it, this is with Warner Bros.' blessing but the money is going to Rob Thomas to produce the film. Warner Bros. aren't the ones running the Kickstarter.

Of course, Warner Bros. still owns Veronica Mars and we would need their blessing and cooperation to pull this off. Kristen and I met with the Warner Bros. brass, and they agreed to allow us to take this shot. They were extremely cool about it, as a matter of fact. Their reaction was, if you can show there’s enough fan interest to warrant a movie, we’re on board.

I read that but to me that doesn't mean "Use this Kickstarter to fund a movie to make us money." so much as "Prove that you can actually get the response needed to make a movie that won't suck and ruin the IP and we'll give you permission to use it." I suppose his wording is ambiguous but yeah, to me this isn't Warner Bros. asking fans to pay for the movie instead of them.

Where do you think the money this movie makes is going to go? Warner Brothers owns Veronica Mars, the money is going to go to them. And, since they don't have to pay to make the movie, it's pure profit.

Where do you think the money this movie makes is going to go? Warner Brothers owns Veronica Mars, the money is going to go to them. And, since they don't have to pay to make the movie, it's pure profit.

Owning an IP doesn't mean you get 100% of the profits from it. They probably get a cut sure but the Kickstarter is to fund the production of the movie, there isn't supposed to be any profit obtained from the drive itself. They stand to benefit if it comes out and does well but so does everyone else involved. If this Kickstarter raises $2M, it's not like Rob Thomas writes a $2M cheque to Warner Bros. I mean hey, if you don't like the idea, I totally respect that but if the choices were this or nothing else with Veronica Mars ever happens, I'm cool with this.

Where do you think the money this movie makes is going to go? Warner Brothers owns Veronica Mars, the money is going to go to them. And, since they don't have to pay to make the movie, it's pure profit.

It might be that the KS wont fully fund the movie (a good move is expensive.. though naturally you could make anything on the cheap) and WB is helping fund it further based on the KS working. We honestly can't speculate because we have no idea the exact terms of the agreement.

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And seeing this funded has me doing the happy dance today.. I was in for $50.

Aint nothing new about the world order..it's been playing since the day they put George Washington on a quarterDelivering Truth while the 10% deliver lies.

There was some scuttlebutt on Twitter that some angry journalists were hating on this. Lord knows why, a dislike of joy, I guess? Someone apparently even pulled out the "the money could be used for better things" argument, which is essentially an instant loser every time.

I haven't ever seen a minute of this show, and I support the KS, if the fans want to make it real. Of course, Kristen's gonna have to pop out that kid first if this is gonna get done.

There was some scuttlebutt on Twitter that some angry journalists were hating on this. Lord knows why, a dislike of joy, I guess? Someone apparently even pulled out the "the money could be used for better things" argument, which is essentially an instant loser every time.

I haven't ever seen a minute of this show, and I support the KS, if the fans want to make it real. Of course, Kristen's gonna have to pop out that kid first if this is gonna get done.

There's a bit of a backlash going on about who does and doesn't 'deserve' to be on KS, it's mostly just concern trolling though.

The people who decide to back a project by a well-known or rich person are not doing so to the exclusion of the poorer and 'deserving,' they probably wouldn't back anything. If the market supports KickStarters like Garriot's and KS themselves don't pull the projects because they feel it undermines their work, then there's nothing to complain about.

So! As I mentioned earlier today, I backed the Kickstarter for the Veronica Mars movie, although I probably shouldn’t have. Not because I think there’s something wrong with a WB property being crowdfunded, but because money is tight and KS is a luxury item. I may cancel sometime in the next month.

Which should not be taken as condemnation of the project itself, of which there has been plenty.

This article by Richard Lawson in the Atlantic Wire seems like a good representative sample of the bullsh*t people are saying about who ought to crowdfund and when it should be seen as unseemly. Have a quote.

But here in the bourgie, comfy confines of wealthy Western society, we’re talking about people like the indie musician Amanda Palmer, who raised $1.2 million on Kickstarter to make and distribute a folk album. That’s all. Amanda Palmer, who is married to successful author Neil Gaiman and has been a prominent musician for a decade or so. Handed $1.2 million because she asked for it. People are free to spend their money however they want, but there’s something so unseemly about the asking, isn’t there? Maybe that reaction is owed to some overly reserved New England quality in me that I should fight against, but I can’t help but feel that Kickstarter campaigns for stuff like this, that is stuff people are having no trouble selling elsewhere, are a bit gauche. Plus it’s too easy.

Of course he has to take a nasty sexist dig at Amanda Palmer. Of course he has to mention that she has married comfortably (The article is obstensively about Rob Thomas’s project, so where’s a mention of his wife? The article fails to mention if he even has one.) Supposedly, Palmer is so successful that she has 100K laying around to fund her studio time and if she doesn’t, well, isn’t she a big enough name to get that money from record companies?

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." ― H.L. Mencken

I am wholly unsurprised to see Lawson writing something sh*tty about the project. I may enjoy Gawker from time to time, but the downside to writing for it, i'm sure, is that the constant, oppressive demand for snarkier and snarkier content must eventually wither one's mind and soul to an empty husk.